Questions!

Okay so I was thinking and I wondered.. If people out there wanted to know certain things about what we do. So, I asked people what they wanted to know. Here's what I was asked so far.. 

1. "When you do investigations does anything follow you home? That is my fear of visiting haunted places."

Personally, I think it can. After investigations I've had one or two things oddly happen at my house. (Had a shelf fall off my bookshelf randomly, in front of another person. Also came home one time after work and my oven was on 210 even though no one had been there all day or touched the oven since the day before.) 
I've heard stories where spirits follow paranormal investigators home. It's really just kind of a thing you've gotta take with the job. The possibility that something could in fact come home with you. 

2. "What precautions, if any, do you take when conducting an investigation, to ensure nothing follows you home?"
Going in, we all do nothing. We don't do anything for protection going in, because the purpose is we want as much to happen to us as possible while we are there for documentation purposes. We all have our different ways and beliefs to keep us protected. I personally use sage after most investigations to try and protect myself. And carry spirit warding stones in my pockets for a couple days after. 

3. " How do you deal with the fear? Do you have certain rituals you have to do before you do an investigation ? Ie : a prayer, meditation , drink a whole bottle of water etc... + How do you deal with negative entities ?"

I don't really have a lot of fear for this kind of stuff. Haha! Hence why I do it. It intrigues me. The more I can see the better! Yes sometimes we have moments where we are startled. But we all share the same passion of wanting more every time. I would call it an addiction at times, cause it is such a rush!
So far thankfully we haven't had to deal with anything too negative. So for the most part, I'm not sure how I would deal with it yet until I am put into that situation.

4. "Why do investigators always do their investigations at night? The ghosts are there all the time, if they're there. I've had more paranormal experiences during the light of day than nighttime. Plus in the dark, it's easier for your senses to play tricks on you. I've just always found that kinda funny!" 

Well there's a few reasons. Our infrared cameras and night vision cameras (which pick up things our eyes can't see on a different light spectrum) work best in the dark. Also in the daytime there's a ton of things competing for the energy in a room (other lights, sunlight coming in, electronics) so a spirit finds it harder to manifest. At night time,there's no real competing light, so they can use all the energy in the air they need to manifest. Plus other noise pollution is lessened at night time.

5. What is your favorite piece of equipment and why?

Right now mine is the Echovox, and the K2 meter. Mostly because I've gotten the best results from those at times, in real time. I really want to get my hands on a Rem Pod though!
6. Where is the most haunted place you have investigated?

I would probably say the Albert County Museum. We've gotten a flashlight to turn on and off on command there. I had a pendulum swing on command, our ovulus has picked up names that were relevant to our questions. It's a crazy place! 

7. "Is there alot of reports of shadow people in Moncton?"

There's quite a few reports of hauntings in Moncton. Not sure how many are necessarily connected to "shadow people". And unfortunately our team hasn't had a chance to check out all of these reports to document anything yet.

Hoped this answered some of your curiosity!

Capitol Theatre

        Just a little history of the Capital Theatre before I go into detail, for those of you who may not know it. The Capitol Theatre is an Italianate opera house-style auditorium built in 1922, located on Main St in Moncton. In 1926, just 4 years after it opened, the Capital Theatre suffered considerable damage from a fire that started at The Empress and spread into the backstage area of the Capital. It was able to re-open only seven short months later. Inside the lobby, there is a plaque honoring the only Moncton firefighter to lose his life in the line of duty. Alexander Lindsay lost his life while fighting the blaze between the two buildings. The Capitol closed down in the late 1980's, but re-opened in 1993 after a multi-million dollar investment by the city which restored it as close as possible to it's original beauty. It is the only theatre to date designated as a New Brunswick Historical Site....

         With that said, let me just say that when I walked into this building, I was speechless. I will admit I was a kid who didn't get out much, and have not seen a whole lot of things in my life thus far (which I am most certainly out to change.) We were let in through the back of the building, and as we walked through to the stage, it was what I would expect from a theatre. Just regular hallways and an office, etc. When we came out to the stage though was when my jaw dropped. The Capitol is a beautiful building! Just standing on the stage looking out into the seats, and looking up to the ceiling, I swear I could almost breathe in the history in this place. I literally stood there for the first 5 minutes just taking it in, looking around at everything in the room. Unfortunately my camera wasn't working so well, so I asked Charm to take some pictures of this room for me, just in case I never got to be in it again. (Which I will fortunately got to return on October 24^th for the Rebecca's Grave debut)

        Once we started the tour, I got to experience even more that I never had before. We went down into the changing rooms, into the basement, and even up onto the cat walk above the stage. Which wasn't so fun because to get down we had to go down two floors basically on this teeny metal ladder. (Not a huge fan of ladders.) We got to see some of the original brick before we went onto the catwalk, which was still charred from the fire that the Capitol experienced.

       When the tour was done, we ran into another employee who works there. He told us a story about how he had seen a person walking along the second story seats. He said the person just walked across the middle of the rows. He also told us a story about a cleaning lady who had an experience there, and how some force had “Warned” her of a gas leak, involving some lights on a phone lighting up while she was there alone. When she called 911 they arrived to find a gas leak in the basement, that could have potentially turned into yet another devastating fire in the Capital.

         Hearing these stories immediately made me more anxious to jump into investigating. But of course, we had to conduct our setup first. We started with our DVR system, placing cameras in areas we believed would help us catch evidence based on the stories we were told. We then did our baseline readings, to let us know if any readings we did get were unusual or if they were normal for that area.

Then it was lights out.

        Dave and myself started on the second story seats, where we had been told a man had been seen walking before. At first we had heard a few random sounds in the seats behind us, almost like someone shifting in a seat. Then at one point we heard a laugh. We knew there had been other people in the building in a meeting at one point, but they had left prior to this happening. When we presented this to the team during evidence review, it was up in the air with opinions on whether it came from outside or not. In my opinion, I know it came from behind us, not from the door adjacent to us. At one point we asked the spirit box “What is your name?” and at the same time we both looked at each other, and I said “Did that just say Alex?” and Daves reply was “That's what I heard.” Unfortunately, our audio recorder that was going at the time was too far away from the spirit box and did not pick this up. We had also heard a whistling sound about three times, All coming from near the stage area. When we asked Charm and Dwayne if they by some chance if they had been making some sort of whistling sound for any reason, they told us they hadn't been.

         We met up on the stage part way through the night for a break. When we did I happened to take a glance at the DVR screen, and noticed on one of the cameras that a door I had opened and put a door stop wedge under, was now closed. I immediately asked the other members of the team if they had closed this door for any reason. They all replied that they hadn't. So I went to check and once again kicked the door stop under. It did not happen again during the night. I went back afterwards and watched the footage, and the door happens to close behind us as we walk through it at one point. It was so silent none of us even notices even though it comes within inches of hitting the last person coming through. I'm pretty sure I pushed it under hard, but where we are walking through it very well could have been the vibrations from our feet that caused it to move. 

           Charm and Dwayne had an interesting experience under the stage where Alexander Lindsay had died in the fire. They were under there using the Ovulus, when it came through with the words “Bury” then “Burn” then “Under”. Coincidence? Maybe. But the Ovulus carries an entire dictionary of words, so the odds of it picking those specific words in that specific spot are pretty low coincidentally are pretty low. In my opinion. Charm also reports that after that incident that the area felt significantly colder. Dwayne, who is sensitive became overwhelmed with energy and needed to leave that area for a breather.

          Near the end of the night, we brought in our investigator Rebecca Belliveau, who is also a sensitive, to do a walk through. She is not a full medium, but she can pick up impressions from a place. Although our investigations are strictly scientific, we like to experiment sometimes with sensitives, and mediums, and pieces of equipment. The Ovulus being a good example. She reported starting to feel strange before she even arrived to the site. She said she felt like someone was around her. Once going through, she claimed to feel “a dark and remnant energy in the ladies’ washroom, as if a spirit was left there, or abandoned somehow.” And in the top seating area she felt “there that a spirit CHOSE to reside there.“

You can read her entire experience at the Capitol Theatre HERE

         Normally at the end of an investigation, I'm tired and can't wait to sleep. Not this time, this time I could have stayed all night in this magnificent building.  But unfortunately we were on a time limit, so we had to pack up and go. When we got back to our vehicles I noticed a parking ticket on my windshield(winter parking ban). The price I pay for this! Haha.
         

         If you would like to view photos from that night, you can find them on our flickr account HERE .
We also have a YouTube episode coming out for this investigation in the future, so stay tuned! 

My Travelling Bucket List

         Those who know me well, know one thing is for certain about me.. I LOVE to travel. Not even just like travel in the sense of going to Cuba and laying on a beach for a week (which at times wouldn't be half bad) I mean like, random road trips sorta deal. (I put 100,000 km on a car once in a year, and just driving local.) I'm more of a learning traveller. I'm attracted to travelling to any place that I just haven't been to before, or that holds interesting history. Ironically I haven't done much travelling too far, I've been on road trips from Nova Scotia to Ontario and back, but that's pretty much the farthest, and I was a kid. I'm the type of person that if I won the lottery, I would seriously give away everything I own, and live out of a suitcase and hotel rooms, just to travel anywhere I possibly could. And I don't even wanna see just the good things with travelling. I wanna see the good, the bad, and the ugly. (With the exception of forests filled with bugs and snakes) Haha, I'm the girl who got excited the first time I saw a hooker in real life, no joke! I literally wanna see everything the world has to offer, from a safe stand point.

          So, for those of you who read my blog (Thanks by the way!) I have made up my “Travelling Bucket List” for you :)

Okay, let's start small. I REALLY wanna see the mountains in British Columbia someday. Seriously, anyone who wouldn't wanna just be planted there for like a week and just be able to take in the beauty of the place has something wrong with them. I get mesmerized just by pictures of them. I'm a city kid, so to see something like this would be like seeing a whole new world.

Fort Erie, Ontario. Now, when I lived in Niagara Falls, we actually traveled to Fort Erie for a field trip. Old Fort Erie, was a war fort. The original was built in 1764. (You can read up on the history of it if you're interested here) While on this field trip with school, obviously for the history purposes, we learned that they actually give midnight ghost tours! Even as a kid at the time, the ghost tour idea caught my attention. I've been dying to go back and go on one. Although being able to just do an investigation of our own would be better ;)

Another place I would have died to do an investigation was Waverly Hills Sanatorium, which they used to give tours through, and a few ghost hunter teams have gotten into to do investigations. Nowadays I hear they are turning it into a hotel, So I guess I will just have to wait and rent a room ;) (Learn the history of Waverly Hills here )

 

The Northern Lights! I don't care where I have to go, or how cold it is there, I NEED to see these!!

Stonehenge: Now this is a place I'd love to see. It's an amazing site, and it makes you wonder! The rocks that make it up are MASSIVE, and there's a lot of question on how the rocks were placed there, considering when it was built there were no large equipment to lift them. There's a lot of speculation there that maybe aliens were in contact with humans waaaay back when, and some people say that's how the rocks were placed. This is also a speculation, for those of you who don't know, for the Egyptians. It is believed that Egyptians way waay back had communication with other worldly species, that's why there has been pictures of certain technologies that didn't exist at the time found in Egyptian tombs. Also there has been crop circles that have depicted what we know as Egyptian symbols. Back to Stonehenge, there have been reports of there being lights in the sky seen near the site from time to time, adding to the wonder if the speculation has some truth to it. 

                                                     Stonehenge ^                                      
                        Crop circle of what eerily resembles a Egyptian Scarab \/

Norway: Now, I would love to visit Norway just for it's simple beauty. Every picture I see of it is amazing. I mean it even makes the winter time look amazing, and I HATE winter!!

OH and not to mention stuff like this has been seen in the Norway sky. Soo, yeah, I wanna see!

Another couple paranormal hot spots I'd like to visit:

                                          Moundsville Penitentiary. 

             Chillingham Castle(Supposedly the most haunted place on earth!!)

Poveglia Island, Italy.

Now, This one is a whole new can of worms. This place has seen so much death it is unreal. It at one time was used as a confinement station for people who had the plague, and a time after that it was used as a quarantine station, and the buildings were built into an asylum for the mentally ill or long term patients.It was more of a place of exile than a place where people got better. Then when people died in the asylum, they were burned, so story goes that a good portion of the soil on the island is made up of human ash. It is said to be extremely haunted. So much so, that the Italian government has actually cut off public access to people to go to the island. There have though, been ghost hunter crews who have been able to get their way onto the island for a night. 

Eastern State Penitentiary
Has anyone else caught on that I have this crazy thing for prisons?? Haha.

The Stanley Hotel

I'm pretty sure this one speaks for itself, and needs no explanation :)

Now back to normal travels, here's a few other "must sees":

Alaska (Beautiful!)

Scotland

Paris

Africa

This whole blog was just to name a few off the top of my head, the real bucket list is MUCH longer. I will elaborate in further posts down the road. But for now, type in some of your travelling bucket lists in the comment section below! I'd love to hear it! Also you can also subscribe to my blog by typing your email in the box near the top, which will inform you every time I post something new!

Until next time... :)

O2 Nightclub Investigation

 On October 29^th 2013, The Greater Moncton Paranormal Society got the privilege of investigating the O2 nightclub in downtown Moncton. Many stories have stemmed from this club, including shadows, and mysterious ghostly cats. There is even a story that a medium was brought into the basement section of the club, but she said there were too many spirits speaking to her, and she would not return. We were told by the owner of the club, that the building was once the first courthouse in Moncton, along with being the first building with jail holding cells in it. It was also once a bank. So the building holds much history. When we got a researcher on our team to dig some more, this is actually what they found:

“Originally designed to be the first department store in Moncton with an open conceit, containing the first electric passenger elevator in the area. During the 30's and 70's it was used for government offices. The store was once the pride and joy of Monctonians, the place where people from all over town and its suburbs gathered on Saturday nights to shop and socialize. Peter McSweeney sold the building in 1932, when it became property of Moncton Electric and Gas Company to be used as a showroom, general offices and storeroom. Sold again in 1959 to Moncton Utility Gas.”

Unfortunately, and strangely, when they dug deeper, they actually did not find any evidence to say for sure that the building was once a jail. So at this point for us it is only speculation.

Now, all seriousness aside, this one was personally a hard investigation for me. Number one, it was a Tuesday, which meant I had to be out fairly late at night, then get up at 7am the next morning for work. Secondly, we had also set up on the same day to do some work with Global News. Which was fun! But also very tiring as we worked with them for around 3-4 hours to make a two minute segment. Haha. And on TOP of all that, I did the entire night with a painful tooth infection, which by the end of the night I had actually developed a mild fever from. I had to leave a few minutes early, once we packed up, I was just too sick to stay to discuss the night with the owner, which sucked! We had used a spirit box that night to try to see what we could get on it, and unfortunately although we did hear a few things that sounded like possible responses, we didn't get anything concrete. We also had quite a bit of debunking to do with this case. This was the very first case that we used our “new to us” DVR system, so we were able to watch/record multiple areas at one time, as opposed to only having hand held video cameras at one time, and they are also built to record in dark areas. Which was awesome!

So as far as evidence goes, here's what we had to work with after reviewing everything:

First off, this is a video of one of our investigators (Dwayne Manaigre)opening the elevator from the basement, now when he walks away you will notice an anomaly come up from the right hand bottom corner and move off screen. Is it interesting? Yes. Now, once we reviewed this, I had asked the team if anyone had maybe noticed if there were any flies or bugs flying around at all, because the anomaly is a little bright to be your regular “dust orb”. Everyone had said not that they had noticed, and at this time, it was the end of October. So it's fairly cold. Does that mean it's not a bug? Not at all. It most certainly could be a bug. But, we don't have the means to really tell whether or not that it is. (NOTE: There is an option on the videos in the bottom right hand corners to make the videos full screen for better viewing.)

Next, we had something called a “trigger object” on one of the tables. Usually that's an object that we may use to try and trigger some activity. This time we had brought a key from the time era that some of the most history of the building is from. Now, even though the key didn't spark up any amazing activity, we soon realized that maybe the key did in fact hold onto some kind of energy. We had a K2 meter set next to the key on a table, and at times the K2 meter would have a faint reading near the key.  

In this video,we are once again in the elevator hallway. Our investigator Dwayne walks to the left side of the screen. When he does, the right side of the screen dims in lighting, sharpens in image, then you see the camera flash and the screen goes back to normal. None of the other cameras, this one included, do this effect at all during the night when we take pictures. So I am confident that it was not the camera flash that caused it. I'm really not sure what did. 

(NOTE: If you click on the images, they become larger so you can get a better look at them)

This video is a perfect example of a "dust orb" (Which a lot of people still manage to get worked up about somehow.) As you can see, it does not have it's own flight path, nor does it let off it's own light. Also, you can notice it's almost completely transparent. 

This picture is of the bar area to the right when you come down the stairs. Now what you're seeing is the original photograph. And the thing standing in the light in the kitchen doorway is what caught our attention. To us it looked like a person standing in the doorway! This next photograph is what we used to compare the photo to another photo which shows the area lit up. 

Now I hate to admit it, but it actually took us a while to figure out,and we FINALLY after MUCH debate, figured out it was a camera tripod Global had set up. Theirs are taller and bigger than ours, which is why it showed up so much over the bar area. 

AND FINALLY, for those of you who didn't get your chance to see it... Our Global News debut! 

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Rebecca's Grave Video!

As most of you know, GMPS did their first outdoor investigation at Rebecca’s Grave on September 29^th 2013. Rebecca’s Grave is located in Moncton, New Brunswick, and is highly known in the area. We have made a public video for a view into our investigation. But before I get into that, I would first like to thank our over 700 members on our Facebook page, especially the ones who interact with our posts and give their inputs and opinions. And also the people who have so far helped me get almost 1500 pageviews!
Now, an outdoor investigation is a little harder than an indoor one. With an indoor investigation you can control the environment you are working in better than outside. When you are outside, there are a number of things that can contaminate evidence. Animals, wind, cars, etc. Especially at a place like Rebecca’s Grave, that is literally only a few feet from a fairly busy road. We also had a few different people stop and check out what we were doing, including a member of the family of the man who owns the land, to warn us to “be careful” (creepy!!)
I apologize for the delay to get the video out, but as we all know, life happens. For me life happens on top of working 6 days a week! So time can be hard to come by some days. But I immensely appreciate all of you who have waited so patiently! This video is a good outlook for the viewer to see the things we may(or may not) see or experience while on an investigation. So without further delay...

  GMPS PRESENTS: Rebecca's Grave